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Sarah Dupont
Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727–1788)LinkedCulture matchlcp-47311e301e0c
- Date
- c. 1777–79
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 105600
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Although Thomas Gainsborough is known best for dazzling and opulent full-length portraits of society figures, the artist’s smaller paintings of his family are notable for their directness and intimacy. The subject of this portrait is the artist’s older sister, who married a carpenter in the siblings’ hometown of Sudbury in Suffolk, England, where Gainsborough established himself as a portrait painter before moving on to the fashionable cities of Bath and London.
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- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Denison B. Hull, Mr. and Mrs. William Kimball, and Mrs. Charles McCulloch
- Provenance
- Presumably painted for Philip Dupont, husband of the sitter and the artist’s brother-in-law (died 1788), Sudbury; by descent to his grandson Richard Gainsborough Dupont (died 1874), also of Sudbury, by 1856 [Fulcher 1856]; sold with his collection, Wheeler and Westoby, Sudbury, May 29, 1874, no. 127, as “Mrs. Philip Dupont, wife of the above [no. 126]”, to J.H. Chance for 36 gns. [label on the picture’s stretcher, the price given in an annotated copy of the catalogue at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, the buyer in Graves 1918, p. 328; the supposed pendant, no. 126 in the sale and described as “Philip Dupont, the artist’s nephew [sic]” was also acquired by Chance and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, but see Warner 1996]; J. H. Chance, to at least 1887 [Ipswich 1887]. Probably William Carr (died 1925), Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk [in a letter of August 22, 1993 in curatorial file, his granddaughter, Countess Ferrers, suggested that he acquired it when he enlarged Ditchingham Hall about 1911]. His son, Brigadier William Greenwood Carr, D.S.O., Ditchingham Hall (died 1982), certainly by 1955 [annotated photograph in the Ellis Waterhouse archive, Paul Mellon Center, London]; by descent to his daughter, Annabel Mary, Countess Ferrers. Richard L. Feigen and Co., New York, by 1986; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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